Nationalist Party of Australia

The Nationalist Party of Australia was a liberal-conservative political party in Australia that was active from 1917 to 1931. The party was a merger of the Liberal Party of Australia and a small group of nationalist Australian Labor Party politicians, and it was in government from 1917 to 1929 (from 1923 with the National Party of Australia); it opposed the Australian Labor Party. In 1931, it merged with pro-Joseph Lyons Labor Party defectors to form the new United Australia Party.